Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival presents an evening with Ambassador Susan Rice, recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy. Ambassador Rice will be in conversation with Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security. In Tough Love, Susan E. Rice—National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United …
POSTPONED – An Evening with Colum McCann: Apeirogon
In a pre-festival event for Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival, don’t miss the chance to hear Colum McCann, National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin, discuss his most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon, an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. McCann will be in conversation with New York Times …
Paul Krugman – Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
For our final event of 2020, we welcome New York Times columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel prize–winning economist Paul Krugman to Montclair to discuss his latest book, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future. Don’t miss this accessible, compelling overview of today’s major policy issues, moderated by renowned journalist, political commentator, and former White House …
Mo Rocca: Mobituaries
Don’t miss the chance to hear beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca discuss Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving, a book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him on March 28, Festival Day at Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival 2020. Come and hear Rocca bring these men and women back to life with dogged reporting and …
Madeline Miller: Circe
Don’t miss the chance to hear novelist Madeline Miller speak with her editor Lee Boudreaux about her phenomenally successful retelling of the life of the Greek goddess, Circe, on March 28, Festival Day at Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival 2020. Described as “bold and subversive” (The New York Times), “blisteringly modern” (The Times) and “a daring feminist take on a classic …
Kristof & Wudunn – Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
We are delighted to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn to Montclair for the opening event of Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival 2020. They will discuss their latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, with former NJ gubernatorial candidate and Montclair resident, Jim Johnson. In Tightrope, the authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky issue a …
Erik Larson: The Splendid and the Vile
For our closing event on Festival Day 2020, we welcome Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake, to talk about his latest book, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. Join one of “the modern masters of popular narrative nonfiction” (New …
Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers
Bestselling author, New Yorker staff writer, and podcast host Malcolm Gladwell comes to Montclair in a pre-festival event for Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival to discuss Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don’t Know. In his latest book, Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, why they often go wrong, and how we …
Book Tour – Isabel Allende: A Long Petal of the Sea
Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival is thrilled to welcome iconic author Isabel Allende to a pre-festival event in Montclair on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, to discuss her latest novel, A Long Petal of the Sea. A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile, and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea shows Isabel Allende at the height of her powers. …
Dani Shapiro in Conversation with Deborah Davis
S2G’s Montclair Literary Festival is excited to announce its first Winter Pre-Festival event on December 10, 2019. Best-selling author Dani Shapiro will talk with Deborah Davis about her gripping memoir on the meaning of parenthood and family identity. In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received …